Obamacare

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Obamacare

A nickname for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed during US President Barack Obama's tenure in office as his signature legislation. Obamacare was an attempt to provide universal healthcare.

Sebelius: Supreme Court jurisprudence traditionally bars the court from characterizing something as a tax if none of the litigants do, yet the Chief Justice came up with the idea of calling the IRS' financial extraction in the Obama-Care legislation a tax.

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